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Article: Morgan Freeman
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 7, 2008
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He had the relentlessness of a Captain Ahab, which is what it
took. Morgan Freeman's voyage seemed endless.
He watched as other actors began bolting Manhattan for Los
Angeles and coveted television and film offers in the '60s and early
'70s. He was stuck on a kids' show in the city.
It was better than hauling his clothes around and bunking with
friends as he once had to do. But the voyage of Morgan Freeman
remained rocky.
He turned 40 in 1977, and was still without a major film role.
Sidney Poitier was 31 when he got his first starring role in "The
Defiant Ones"; Denzel Washington, 27 when he got his first big part
in "Carbon Copy."
"Fortunately," Freeman says, recalling those early ...